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I disagree that cats can't have any plant material, they do eat the contents of stomachs in the wild, which largely contain plant material. It's an important source of a number of vitamins.
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Any wild cat, including Bengals and savanna Cats which are only part wild, should be fed an all meat, raw meat diet. I have a barn cat that I try to keep on a raw meat diet, but it's a pain to have to process the meat all the time for him and keep it from freezing at the barn. When he's on all raw meat for a while you can tell the difference, he slims down some but retains all of his muscle and energy, he also gets super shiny and soft. All I do is buy a 10 pound bag of chicken leg quarters and then cut each piece up into 3 pieces (drumstick, and cut the thigh in half) and give him a piece each day, granted, he's also hunting on his own, so that's not ALL he's eating, but his diet goes from fresh kills plus cat food to fresh kills plus raw meat. I don't grind it or anything for him, it's kind of frightening actually to give him a chicken thigh and hear him in there crunching through those big bones like they're not even there... course I've come in the barn and found just a rabbit head and guts before, so he did the same to an entire rabbit... The raw meat diet may be more expensive and harder to deal with, but it's definantly better for the cat since cats can't process plant based anything and that's almost all that is in commercial cat food. Also, sometimes the meat byproducts are ground up and processed pets that have been put down.... kind of gross if you think about it.
I disagree that cats can't have any plant material, they do eat the contents of stomachs in the wild, which largely contain plant material. It's an important source of a number of vitamins.
One of my cats was pantsless when he was on Purina chow. I know, super cheapo food... Money was tight. He ate By Nature before I got divorced, then to save money we used Purina... and his butt, legs and belly went bald. Eventually I decided he needed grainfree and went with Taste of the wild. Fantastic stuff but TOO pricey. Now I get 4Health. Both brands are carried by TSC.
He's grown back his pants *laugh*
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I didn't say they couldn't HAVE it, just said they don't digest it well if at all. I know when a cat eats grass that it comes back out in much the same shape that it went in. Also, I rarely see cats eat the digestive tract of animals they kill. I have had cats all of my life and had to clean up lots of little piles of guts after they brought something in and ate everything but the guts.I disagree that cats can't have any plant material, they do eat the contents of stomachs in the wild, which largely contain plant material. It's an important source of a number of vitamins.
Ok, I don't know for sure, and I haven't done research, but a LOT of things that I have read and seen (admittedly mostly on facebook or linked to by someone on facebook, like I said, I haven't researched it, just ran into the info) have said that they are included in pet food.Where did you get the information that meat by-products can be made up from pets that have been put down? I am willling to bet that practice would be highly illegal.
Also they choose to eat grass on occasion... Think it has something to do with getting unwanted things out of their stomachs... Not sure that they digest it...
Does the bird go through its death throes as violently as when a head is copped off?
Glad it worked out for you
Having to redo it is still quick and not at all messy, unlike a botched chopjob.
Easy, peasy, Put it in the fridge for 3 days to relax and then freeze it for about 2 or 3 wks. Don't make an issue of this is the chickens we killed. Just "We're have chicken tonight". My family had told me they will not eat anything I have raised. Except the eggs.I just wanted to report back in on how our first chicken dinner went after all the help I got here. I brined it and roasted it. It was very delicious, but a little wilder than what I expected, and it's legs were a lot longer which made eating it a little strange. My younger son who wanted to help with the processing, but wanted to let the chicken run around decapitated (the whole story is available in this thread) thought it was delicious, and ate a lot. My older son was horrified and could not believe I would kill something I raised from a baby and then eat it. He refused to even eat the potatoes that were cooked with it and had bread and green beans for dinner. My husband was a trooper but I could tell he was a little creeped out.
I left the leftover in the fridge for about a day and a half, and then deboned it. Tossed the bones and vacuum sealed the meat to make chicken and dumplings later...but after the bones were out of site, I stole a bite, and it was fantastic! I think the lesson in this is that the chicken tastes better when the shape of it is gone so you are not trying to remember what it looked like...or to wait a while to eat the first one.
We had fast food bought fried chicken a couple of nights ago, and it was just nasty to me. films of fat everywhere and meat that seemed over processed and unnatural and sticky. That poor restaurant bird gave it's life for me to say that about it. Now, THAT's the real guilt people should have.
I am dreading the next processing day. Who wouldn't? But the key word is 'next'.